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The Coronation of the Virgin, 1441, Fra Angelico

Medium: fresco,wall

https://www.wikiart.org/en/fra-angelico/the-coronation-of-the-virgin-1441

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Coronation of the Virgin, 1604, El Greco

Medium: oil,canvas

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Assumption of the Virgin, El Greco (1577)

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love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

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I’m actually going to go further and say that while famous women have always had completely batshit experiences with fame (morality clauses, paparazzi camped outside their homes, abusive studio and record execs, abusive celebrity boyfriends, exploitative working conditions, forced plastic surgery and skin bleaching and electrolysis for hairline reshaping, addictions caused by their work, stalkers, nudes and sex tapes being leaked, doxxing and harassment from fans) it’s Worse if you try and include any element of self-expression (particularly nudes and partial nudes, or sexual self-expression in songs and films and books) that doesn’t cater to the expected vanilla heteronormative attitudes

if you’re not sexual to sell anything about your appeal to men (or women in particular ways), if you’re someone who’s a naturist or nudist just because clothes suck or you’re a fan of hanging out topless, if you’re not interested in presenting yourself in a marketable way, people get even more unhinged about having some kind of right to your body

and it’s intensely misogynistic towards cis women (there’s an angry entitlement, a how dare you not give me my due kind of energy) and even more intensely transmisogynistic because people already can’t deal with trans women being women who aren’t always sexually available to them. because of the misogyny. like. what the fuck.

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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[Van voice] Come one, come all to the First Annual [Akilah voice: "Annual?!"] Yellowjackets Casefic Week: Because Trapped Inside This Slick 2020s Thriller Is a Shitty First-Run Syndication 1990s Genre Show (Affectionate) Screaming to Get Out!

Whether we liked season 3 or not, or for that matter season 2 or not, most of this fandom can agree on one thing: the show suffers from the limited runtime and preference for extremely tight serialized storytelling that dominate TV in Current Year. We'd all love more time with these characters, these settings, and these themes: more time to breathe and sit with things, more time for levity, perhaps even more time for vanishing moose and screaming trees and Tai dragging Van to abandoned ice cream parlors to do haruspicy with rabbits and coyotes.

That's where YJ Casefic Week comes in. "Casefic" is an Old Fandom term for a specific kind of filler; back when many first-run Western TV fandoms were for police, legal, or medical procedurals, people would write fics that depicted a typical case that the characters might solve, and that were thus structured like a one-off episode of the show. Here, we encourage you to write something that might be a missing YJ scene, or even a whole episode! (We know that for most people the "whole episodes" will be synopses rather than full longfics or scripts; this is more than fine! None of us are made of time and energy.)

Bonus points for being able to slot it into the canon timeframes and plot structure, but if you're not able to, that's fine too. It's all for the sake of imagining what our beloved cannibal show might be like if it had been possible to make it in a more generous and expansive era of TV.

The event will run from November 9 to 15. The daily themes/challenges are:

Sunday, November 9: Season 1 missing scene Monday, November 10: Season 1 filler episode Tuesday, November 11: Season 2 missing scene Wednesday, November 12: Season 2 filler episode Thursday, November 13: Season 3 missing scene Friday, November 14: Season 3 filler episode Saturday, November 15: Free day! Anything goes as long as it could fit into a hypothetical YJ filler episode.

The event is run by @monstrousgourmandizingcats and @staghunters, both of whom have experience managing major fandom projects--Lottielee Weekend in the former case, the Save Our Souls! zine in the latter. We'll both be on Central European Time throughout the event, but feel free to post in whatever time zone you're in and we'll see and reblog it. We'll be tracking the tags #yjcaseficweek and #yjfillerweek.

This is by nature primarily a fanfic event, but if you do art or edits or meta that fits the concept, that's great too!

Here's a graphic if you'd like to advertise the event on other platforms (with the 3x01 joke at the beginning mistakenly listing the Akilah line as a Gen line, because old TV listings had little flubs like that all the time):

And a smaller one to remember when the event is:

It should be a great time! Let hilarity, hijinx, and even hilarious hijinx ensue!

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welcome to the Murdersex zine, a zine celebrating all things sex and murder. but um. we don't want to romanticize it or anything so don't make your submissions too murdersexy. we will do extensive background checks on all applicants and if we decide a past work of yours has too much sexy murder we'll have to remove you, sorry. we have limits, you know, we want a tasteful gory spread you could put on your coffee table, and having the Wrong people in it would kill the vibe (and we condemn all killing! wholeheartedly!)

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don't say "2010's music" and then play something from 2017-2019. that's not 2010's music to me. they're sonically so different from 2010-2016 to me

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“should tumblr have a cut off age” i think we should be recruiting from nursing homes and senior citizen centers actually

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Been wanting to make fanart of the locked tomb since I've read the books. And I hope to have time soon to draw moreee

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Does anyone know how to denominate the leap month in the East Asian lunisolar calendar? Would it be something like (for example, for the month we're in now) "sixth month bis" or "six month II" or (for today's date) "6ii/21" or "21/6ii"?

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anyone done this yet

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Does anyone know how to denominate the leap month in the East Asian lunisolar calendar? Would it be something like (for example, for the month we're in now) "sixth month bis" or "six month II" or (for today's date) "6ii/21" or "21/6ii"?

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"You are angry at math." feels like something Edward Teller or some other cold warrior nuclear physicist would say to mock peaceniks in the 1950s. Make a real argument.

Okay, genius. So are you going to do The Revolution to get rid of The Capitalists, are you going to try to take the shiny new powerful tool away from The Capitalists, or are you going to do jack shit other than preen about how much smarter you are for only accepting the first option than those of us who would also accept the second?

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

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Takashi Kijima Lady with a Necklace of a Pearl 1948